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SIRS reserve study in Miami-Dade County

Miami-Dade ran its own building recertification long before the state wrote milestone inspections into law, and the two now overlap. For a board, that overlap is useful: a recent recertification report is the best briefing a SIRS provider can get.

Local programs change; confirm with the county or city.

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Recertification and the SIRS are different jobs

The county page sets recertification "at 30 years and every 10-year interval thereafter", with a 25-year trigger for coastal condo and co-op towers of three stories and up built from 1998 on (Miami-Dade County, building recertification). Buildings of four or more stories need a structural engineer and an electrical engineer to report separately.

None of that sets a reserve budget. The recertification engineer certifies the building as safe to keep occupying; the SIRS turns the same roof, structure, wiring and envelope into costs, remaining lives and an annual reserve figure the board must fund.

What it means in practice

Ask the SIRS provider to read the latest recertification report before the site visit. Electrical findings from a recertification feed straight into item e, and any structural repair list shapes items b and f. Where a qualifying inspection is less than five years old, the statute lets it replace the visual inspection part of the SIRS altogether.

Towers with structural glazing have a further five-year recertification for the glazed facade, which is worth flagging under item g (windows and exterior doors).

The state rule, unchanged by county

Whatever the local program, the SIRS itself is state law. Every condo or co-op building of three habitable stories or more in Miami-Dade County needs one at least every 10 years, covering the eight statute items, signed by one of the four credentials, with reserves that owners cannot waive. The deadlines page has the dates.

Other counties

Broward, Palm Beach, Pinellas, Sarasota, Collier, Lee, Duval.

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Condo and co-op boards and managers in Florida
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